Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
KJV
Equi amatores et emissarii facti sunt : unusquisque ad uxorem proximi sui hinniebat.
Vulgate
ἵπποι θηλυμανεῖς ἐγενήθησαν, ἕκαστος ἐπὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐχρεμέτιζεν.
LXX
they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
ASV
סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖/הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִ֣ישׁ
'ysh
noun · 2171×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים
myznym
verb · 1×
מַשְׁכִּ֣ים
mshkym
verb · 1×
סוּסִ֖ים
svsym
noun · 141×
צַהֲלִ֥י
tshly
verb · 10×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Those persons who do not believe in God, but who are disobedient, are angels and sons of the devil, not indeed by nature, but by imitation. Close of this book, and scope of the succeeding one. 1. Inasmuch as the Lord has said that there are certain angels, [viz. those] of the devil, for whom eternal fire is prepared; and as, again, He declares with regard to the tares, The tare…
2. Having then found Him in the wilderness, and in a pathless wilderness (for that the wilderness was such, Mark has declared, saying, that He was with the wild beasts Mark 1:13), behold with how much craft he draws near, and wickedness; and for what sort of opportunity he watches. For not in his fast, but in his hunger he approaches Him; to instruct you how great a good fastin…
18. If then, as we have many times said, the Word of God is the same with us, and nothing differs from us except in time, let Him be like us, and have the same place with the Father as we have; nor let Him be called Only-begotten, nor Only Word or Wisdom of the Father; but let the same name be of common application to all us who are like Him. For it is right, that they who have…
Cross-references
- 2Sam 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautif
- 2Sam 11:3 — And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
- Deut 5:18 — Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Exod 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Ezek 22:11 — And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Jer 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it
- Job 31:9 — If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;